Wringer



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I. F. BROWN.

WRINGER.

No. 574,386. Patented Jan. 5, 1897.

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vISRAEL F. BROWN, OF NEW LONDON, CONNECTICUT.

WRINGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 574,886, dated January 5, 1897'.

Application filed August 28, 1894. Serial No. 521,505. (No model.)

To LZZ whom, it' may concern:

Beit known that I, ISRAEL F. BROWN, a citizen of the United States, residing at New London, in the county of New London and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful lVringer, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in wringers.

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction of wringers and to provide a simple and efficient one which will enable the pressure exerted on the clothes in wringing to be readily regulated in order to fully extract the water and at the same time prevent injury to the fabrics.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claim hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a wringer constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view. Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view. Fig. 4 is a detail view of the core for the spring. Fig. 5 is a transverse scction on the line or: of Fig. 2.

'Like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawings.

l designates a wringer-framc provided with vertical standards 2, which are bifurcated at their lower ends and provided with clampingscrews 3 to enable the wringer to be securely fastened on a washtub, washing-machine, or the like. portions of the standards are beveled in order to iit snugly against the inner side of the tub, and the clamping-screws, which pass through perforations in the outer sides of the bifurcated portions, engage nuts 5, fitted in enlarged portions of the perforations and provided with ribs to prevent them from turning.

The wringer-frame is provided near the upper ends of the standards with horizontal bars 0, provided at their front ends with bearings 7, in which are `journaled the ends of a lower roll 8, and coperating with the lower roll is an upper roll 9, which is journaled in suitable bearings at the front ends of a pair of levers 10. The levers lO are fulcrumed on the up- The inner sides 4 of the loifurcat-edA per portions of the standards at the inner faces 'thereof by means of a horizontal shaft ll, which passes through the standards, eX- tending entirely across the space between the standards, and projects from one of them to receive a pinion 13,' which revolves upon said shaft. A crank-handle l2 is fastened to the pinion 13, and the latter meshes with a cogwheel li of the upperroll. The shaft between the levers is covered bya hollow bar orsleeve l5, which spaces the levers and prevents them from moving inward on the shaft. The upper and lower rolls are connected at the side opposite to that having the handle by gearwheels I6 and I7.

The pressure of the rolls is regulated by screws 1S, mounted in threaded openings at the rear ends of the levers l0 and engaging cushions 20, arranged in sockets 2l of the rear ends of the bars 6. Each cushion 20 consists of a spiral spring and a core provided at its upper end with a flange bearing upon the spring and having a concavity to receive the adjusting-screws. The cores are of asize to fit loosely within the springs. They strengthen and support the same, and the cushions are adapted to permit the upper roll to yield to avoid breaking buttons and to avoid too great a pressure on thickened or folded parts passing between the rolls.

At the front of the wringer is arranged a board 23, and at the bottom of the lower roll are located oppositely-inclined strips or boards 24 and 25, which form an inverted-V-shaped stop for the clothes. This construction prevents the clothes from following the lower roll after passing between the rolls, and the front board serves as a guide for the clothes in introducing them between the rolls, and this board is cut away at its top edge to admit of the clothes passing readily to the pressurerollers. The angle of the V-stop touches the lower pressure-roller in the rear of its axis, soV

as to effectually prevent any clothes or fabric following the roller after once passing in the rear thereof. The strips 24 and 25 and the board 23 connect the horizontal bars 6 and brace and strengthen the side standards.

It will be seen that the Wringer is simple and comparatively inexpensive in construction, that it is adapted to be readily secured to a washtub, washing-machine, or the like,

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and that the pressure ony the clothes may he o readily regulated.

Changes in the forni, proportion, and the n'iinor details of construction may he resorted to Without departing from they prinripleorr sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention. y y

' What I claim isn o Ina clothes-wringer, the combination of Side standards having their lower ends provided with clamping means, parallel hori-r zontal harsiirlnly attached between their h ends' to thestandards, and yhaving vertical sockets in the top edges near their rear ends,r

a hoard out away at its top edge and connecting the frontends of the horizontalhars and forminga guide, ahorizontal shaft journaled inthe upper endsof the standards, levers extending parallel with the horizontal hars and fulcruined upon the horizontal shaft, a spacin g-sleeve mounted upon the shaft and having its ends touching the inner sidesof thelevers, pressure-rollers jonrnaied in the front ends of the saidfhars and levers, springs placed in the aforesaid vertical sockets, set-screws mounted in therear ends of theleversy and engaging f with the springs, oppositely-inclined strips secured to the aforesaid hars and forming an inverted-V stop'disposed to come beneath the lower pressure-roller, and having its angle touching the surface thereof in the rear of its axis, a pinion mounted upon one end 'of thei horizontal shaft and having a crank oonnected therewith, and a gear-Wheel see uredto the project-ing journal ot the adjacent pressure-roller and meshing With the said pinion and driven therefrom, substantially as set forth. y y y n In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aiixed lnysignature in the presence of two Witnesses.

'ISRAEL F. BROWN. iVitnesses:

EDWARD T. BROWN, GEORGE COLFAX. 

